Worker wins slip-and-fall verdict

Icy steps will cost a Johnston, PA, club a large sum of money. A jury in Cambria County has awarded $1 million in a slip-and-fall case in which an Altoona workman was injured when he fell down the ice-covered steps of the PNA club. Kurtis W. Carper was walking down the steps to clean the beer taps at the club while holding a toolbox in one hand. He fell even though he was holding a railing with

Slip and fall mishap nets settlement for city worker

A simple slip and fall accident resulted in years of pain and struggle for a civilian employee of the Coral Springs Police Department. Lisa Freed suffered a severe back injury when she slipped while hosing down equipment in 2006. She was diagnosed with a lumbar injury and doctors recommended physical therapy. But that course of treatment failed and Freed eventually was forced to undergo surgery,